Should engineers be licensed (Was "Geeks")

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Dec 17 12:16:46 2001

 
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From: CLeyson_at_aol.com [mailto:CLeyson_at_aol.com]
 
> I sometimes wonder just how many customers we've lost because of this.
> Also, dont get me wrong, the same should be applied to hardware design.
> We recently interviewed an electronics engineering graduate who didn't
know
> the difference between NPN and PNP transistors !! What do they teach kids
> these days ??

My guess is nothing. (Really... that's part of the reason I'm not in a
hurry to get my degree) It's not that the couldn't teach anything, or that
the "kids" couldn't learn if they tried, though, I think. It's more that
they're too stupid to know that there's more to learning than showing up
every day and reciting meaningless (to you) data.

The really sad part is that schools are accommodating this attitude by
adjusting their programs such that you really needn't (in fact, it becomes
difficult to...) learn anything.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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